Robert Burnard (1799 or 1800, Laneast, Cornwall, - 1846 or 1847, or 13 April 1876), British artist and house painter. Born the son of Richard Parnell Burnard and Elizabeth, née Westlake, he was first employed as a house painter. But he also soon began a side career as a - self-taught - portrait painter and traveled around Cornwall and nearby Devon painting children and animals. He married Jane Chapman in 1822. They had 4 children, but in 1831 his wife and eldest son died, and the following year Burnard married Eliza, née Stodden; they had 10 children together. The family emigrated to South Australia in October of 1839. After a particularly difficult voyage, they settled in Plympton, Adelaide, where Burnard continued his work as a house painter and painter of portraits and still lifes. The date of his death is unclear. An article in the South Australian Register of 1847 refers to him as "departed". But confusing the issue is that his eldest surviving son, another Robert Burnard, lived a life pretty much identical to that of his father's, and also had a career as an artist, producing exactly the same sorts of paintings. So the later date of 1876 might refer to either father or son. This is a rather interesting article, with a well-done critique of the work and biographical data of the artist: https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Who+was+Robert+Burnard%3F+Angus+Trumble+investigates+the+mystery+of+a...-a0122375140 (http://godsandfoolishgrandeur.blogspot.nl/2016/10/john-gubbins-newton-and-his-sister-mary.html) undefined

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